A nurse was left with nasty injuries after a woman punched “because she’s an influencer”.
Soraya Riffy shared selfies showing blood streaming from her nose after the unprovoked assault on Thursday (17 Apr) morning.
Riffy was about to leave for work in her car when she was confronted by another driver.
The 30-year-old said: “She asked me to reverse so she could get out, but I couldn’t – there were three cars parked behind me.
“I told her to manoeuvre around to my right, but she refused.
“Then she got out of her car and started hurling abuse at me, calling me a filthy wh, saying she’d f my dead relatives, that she worked for a major local newspaper and would leak my address.
“She threatened to kill me, saying she’d come back to my place and find me at my gym.”
Riffy got out of her car and tried to film the aggressor, but the woman allegedly snatched the phone from her hand.
She said: “She came towards me, grabbed me by the hair, and shoved me to the ground. I lost my balance and fell.
“I curled up on the floor, and she got on top of me, hitting me in the head and face. I was trapped – curled up with her full weight on me, I couldn’t fight back.
“She just kept hitting me, over and over. It went on for so long, I thought it would never stop. I was on the verge of blacking out.”
The vicious attack only ended when a passer-by separated the women in Marseille, France.
Riffy was taken to A&E covered in bruises and with a suspected broken nose, as reported by Need To Know.
After she was discharged and signed off work, she reported the assault to the police.
Riffy told her million-plus social media following: “I’ve got lower back pain and neck pain, I’m wearing a neck brace and a lumbar support belt.
“After all the blows to my head, I’ve been getting dizzy spells and constant headaches.”
Riffy believes she was attacked simply because she is an influencer.
The day after the assault (18 Apr), she said: “I haven’t been back home since.
“I don’t know what that woman’s capable of – whether she’ll come back to attack me again or do something else.
“The moment she got out of the car and saw it was me behind the wheel, she just lost it.”
The police are working to identify and catch the suspect.
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